Octave Tempo Alarm Management
Formerly PAS AlarmManagement. Reduce alarm noise, improve operator response and ensure compliance. Turn alarm data into actionable insights to improve safety, reliability and performance.
Simplify alarm management, improve performance
Make every alarm clear and actionable
Poorly performing alarm systems overwhelm operators with noise, making it harder to detect and respond to real issues. Tempo Alarm Management reduces nuisance alarms, improves alarm quality and ensures the right information reaches the right person at the right time. The result is better situation awareness, faster response during abnormal conditions and safer, more reliable operations.
Analyze, rationalize and control alarm systems
Capture and analyze alarms and events to identify issues and reduce noise. Document and rationalize alarms with clear priorities, causes and responses. Audit and enforce changes with full traceability. Deliver real-time alerts and apply dynamic alarming to maintain performance and support continuous improvement.
Alarm and event analysis
Capture and analyze alarms, events, operator interventions, system logs and parameter changes. The alarm mechanic feature calculates settings to reduce nuisance alarms.
Documentation and rationalization
Document and rationalize alarms with defined setpoints, priorities, causes and actions in a central database. Flexible queries support analysis and continuous operational improvement.
Audit and enforce
Enable real-time notifications, capture changes, support audit reporting and configure enforcement of alarm setting changes.
Alert director
Get notifications in real-time based on configurable triggers.
Dynamic alarming
Modify engineered alarms based on current operating state. Temporarily disable nuisance alarms and generate reports to facilitate corrective actions.
Client success stories
Tempo Alarm Management by the numbers
Organizations using Tempo Alarm Management are reducing alarm volume, eliminating nuisance alarms and minimizing bypasses. A structured approach improves alarm quality, reduces operator burden and drives safer, more efficient and reliable operations.
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70%reduction in nuisance alarms
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65%fewer stale alarms
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93%reduction in safety instrumented systems (SIF) bypasses
Ranked #1 global provider of alarm management software by ARC Advisory Group
We went down from literally tens of thousands of alarms per shift to less than 12. This helped our operators and PDO overall tremendously in improving efficiency and safety, as personnel can now focus on critical work.
We went down from literally tens of thousands of alarms per shift to less than 12. This helped our operators and PDO overall tremendously in improving efficiency and safety, as personnel can now focus on critical work.
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